All Chapters of The Day I Stopped Being Mr Nice Guy: Chapter 141
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CHAPTER 141
Dante stood at the observation window in the Vertex lab, staring at the monitors. Behind him, machines beeped softly. The four trial patients were resting on their beds, and were sleeping peacefully. Liam walked in with a tablet in his hand and said, “The twenty four hour blood work just came back.” Dante turned and asked expectantly, “And?” Liam handed him the tablet. “Take a look for yourself.” Dante scrolled through the data as his eyes moved quickly over the numbers and charts. Then he stopped and smiled to himself. “This is good,” he said quietly. “This is really good.” Liam nodded and said with a big smile on his face. “The regeneration markers are stronger than we predicted. No adverse reaction in any patient. Liver enzymes are normal across the board. Kidney function stable. The formula is holding.” “For how long?” “Early days still. But the trend is positive. If this continues another forty eight hours, we can call the first phase a real success.” Dante hande
CHAPTER 142
Clara sat at her desk table at in the Lotus Group office, reviewing emails and reading documents. The morning sun streamed through the large windows, but she looked bored and distracted. Lena walked in with a stack of documents on her hands and said “Ms. Vance, these need your signature, for routine approvals.” Clara barely looked up. With her eyes still peeled on her laptop screen, she waved dismissively, “just leave them. I will sign.” Lena placed them on the desk, then she opened the folder and pointed. “Here and here, please.” Clara signed quickly and flipped through pages with reading them, for her mind was elsewhere. When she realized she had signed the last paper, she barked, “Anything else?” “No. That is all for now,” Lena gathered the documents. “I will file these away.” “Fine.” When she left. Clara leaned back on her chair and stared at the ceiling. Then her phone rang. She glanced at the screen. It was her private investigator. She grabbed it. “Yes?” “Ms.
CHAPTER 143
Mason sat in his office at Lockwood Hotel, reviewing reports on his tablet with the morning sun casting its rays on his polished desk. He looked calm and satisfied. Then someone knocked at the door.“Come in,” Mason said without looking up.His assistant, Derek, walked in with a thin folder in his hands and said, “Sir, these documents just arrived. From Lotus Group.”Mason looked up expectantly and said, “bring them here.”Derek placed the folder in the desk hurriedly. Mason pick it up and scanned the pages with his eyes moving quickly over the text. Then he smiled to himself.“Excellent,” he murmured. “This is exactly what I needed.”Derek waited for a minute before asking, “Is there anything else, sir?”“No. That will be all.”Then Derek nodded and left, before closing the door quietly behind him.Mason leaned back in his chair with still that same sly smile on his face. The Lotus documents were perfect. He was beginning to take control of parts of Clara’s projects without her know
CHAPTER 144
Dante sat at a quiet corner table in a small restaurant not far from Vertex. The place was cozy, with soft lighting and few customers. Across from him, Caleb leaned back in his chair comfortably and swirled a glass of water lazily.“So,” Caleb said with a teasing smile on his face. “Tell me about this lunch you had with Amara.” Dante shrugged his shoulders lazily and replied dismissively, “it was just a lunch. We talked. Nothing special.”Caleb raised his eyebrow in feigned surprise and asked incredulously, “Nothing special? You have mentioned her name three times in the last week. That is special for you.”“It is not like that,” Dante said and shook his head. “She is nice. Easy to talk to. That is all.”“Easy to talk to and beautiful.” Caleb grinned with a mocking glint in his eye. “I have seen her, remember? At the mall that day. She is stunning.”Dante laughed. “You are impossible.”“I am just saying what everyone is thinking.” Then Caleb leaned forward and whispered. “Come on, th
CHAPTER 145
Eleanor Carlisle sat on the living floor of Dante’s mansion, surrounded by crayons and coloring books. Daisy was beside her, with her tongue sticking out in concentration as she colored a purple elephant. “No, no, Auntie Ellie,” Daisy said, pointed at Eleanor’s coloring. “Elephants are gray. That is blue.” Elenor laughed. “But this is a special elephant. He is magic. He can be any color he wants.” Daisy considered this with a serious expression on her face. Then she nodded. “Okay, magic elephants can be blue.” She went back to her own coloring. Elena, the housekeeper, appeared on the doorway. “Mrs Carlisle? There are some men at the door. They said they need to see you. It is urgent.” Eleanor looked up as her face expression changed from playful to serious and asked, “Did they give you names?” “Yes, ma’am. A Mr. Robert. Mr. Harry, and Mr. Chen. From the Lorian fund.” Eleanor nodded her head slowly and turned to Daisy. “Sweetheart, go find Nurse Amy in the Kitchen. Ask her
CHAPTER 146
Dante sat at his desk in Vertex office, reviewing old files. The morning was quiet. Too quiet. He checked his watch for the third time in ten minutes.The door opened suddenly and Liam walked in, with a tablet high above his head like a trophy with a big grin that Dante has ever seen on his face.“We did it!” Liam shouted.Dante stood up quickly and asked, “What? Tell me.”Liam handed the tablet to Dante. “The preliminary results. All of them. Look for your self.”Dante looked at the screen expectantly. Numbers. Charts. Graphs and his heart missed a beat.Seventy two hours. No wait. Seventy eight hours. And not a single complication in any patient.His hands started shaking. “This…This is real?”“It is real.” Liam replied as he bounced around. “The regeneration markers are strong. Liver enzymes normal. Kidney function is perfect. No opposite reactions. Nothing. Dante, it worked. It actually worked.”Dante dropped the tablet carefully, as if it might break. He sat back in his chair and
CHAPTER 147
Mason dat at his desk in Lockwood hotel, reviewing documents and files. Peter stood by the window, looking out at the city, with his hands folded tightly on his chest. Two men sat across from Mason. They were board members from Lotus Group. They were both older men. Well dressed and nervous.Mason smiled warmly at them and said, “Gentlemen, thank you for coming on such short notice. I appreciate your time.”The first man, Mr Grange, nodded his head stiffly and said in a low voice. “Of course, Mr. Lockwood. You said it was urgent.”“It is,” Mason said and leaned forward slightly. “I want to discuss Dr. Dante Vance. Specifically, his position as second largest Shareholder at Lotus.”The second man, Mr Phelps, shifted in his chair and asked nervously. “What about it?”Mason lowered his voice into a more intimate tone. “You both kmow he does not deserve that seat. He is a scientist, not a Buisnessman. He is distracted by his little Vertex experiment. He is neglecting his duties at Lotus.”
CHAPTER 148
Clara walked into the mansion sitting room and stopped when she saw Mason standing by the window, with his phone pressed to his ears. He was speaking in a low voice.“No, I need that report tonight. Yes. Good.”He noticed her watching him and his face changed immediately. He smiled warmly and waved her over.Clara walked towards him and Mason ended the call quickly and pulled her into a hug.“Clara. I did not hear you come in,” he said and kissed her on the cheek. “Where have you been? I feel like I have not seen you all day.”“I was at the office. Working.” Clara said softly and pulled back slightly. “You know how it is.”Mason nodded his head sympathetically, and said, “I know. And I am sorry, I have not been at home much lately. Things have been….busy. With the hotel and the investors.”“It is fine.” Clara smiled. But it did not reach her eyes. “I understand.”Mason looked at her from head to toe. She was dressed nicely. Wearing a simple but elegant red dress. With heels and makeup
CHAPTER 149
Dante sat at the end of the conference table in his Lotus office. Around him, the Brookfield team gathered their papers and laptops, for the meeting had just ended.“That is all for today,” Dante said as he stood up. “Patricia, I need those vendor contracts by tomorrow morning. Hughes, the timeline revisions you mentioned—I want to see this by the end of the day.”Patricia nodded. “Yes, Dr. Vance.”Hughes swallowed nervously and said shakily, “okay. I will have them ready.”The team all filed out. Patricia went out first, then the junior analyst. Then the administrative staff. Soon, only Hughes remained, hovering by the door and pretending to look at his shoes.Dante looked at him and said, “Close the door, Hughes.”Hughes obeyed and walked back to the table. Then he sat across from Dante, with his fingers drumming the table consistently.“I am sorry to bother you, Dr. Vance.” Hughes said quietly. “But I need to know…what should I tell them? Clara and Mason? They will both be expectin
CHAPTER 150
The high end restaurant was quiet and private. With soft lighting. Dark wood and grw customers. In a secluded corner booth, Robert, Harry and Chen sat there waiting.Three men sat across from them, and shifted uncomfortably. They were board members of Lockwood Hotel Group. They were Middle aged. Well dressed and nervous.One of them, a heavy looking man named Mr. Dawson, cleared his throat. “Gentlemen, this is….you expected. When representatives from the Lorian fund requests a private meeting, it makes a man to wonder.”Robert smiled warmly and waved him off. “No need to wonder Mr. Dawson. We are here to talk Buisness. Good Buisness.”Another board member, called Mr Reeves, leaned forward and asked nervously, “what kind of Buisness?”Harry pulled out a document and placed it on the table. “We are interested in buying your shares. A portion of them. Not all. Just enough.”The third board member, Mr. Sterling, frowned and asked, “Our shares? Why?”Chen spoke calmly. “The Lorian Fund has